{"id":187995,"date":"2024-04-24T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/reimagining-memory-new-research-reveals-that-superconducting-loops-mimic-the-brain"},"modified":"2024-04-24T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:22:24","slug":"reimagining-memory-new-research-reveals-that-superconducting-loops-mimic-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/reimagining-memory-new-research-reveals-that-superconducting-loops-mimic-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining Memory: New Research Reveals That Superconducting Loops Mimic the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reimagining-memory-new-research-reveals-that-superconducting-loops-mimic-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computers work in digits \u2014 0s and 1s to be exact. Their calculations are digital; their processes are digital; even their memories are digital. All of which requires extraordinary power resources. As we look to the next evolution of computing and developing neuromorphic or \u201cbrain-like\u201d computing, those power requirements are unfeasible.<\/p>\n<p>To advance neuromorphic computing, some researchers are looking at analog improvements. In other words, not just advancing software, but advancing hardware too. Research from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ucsd\/\">University of California San Diego<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/uc-riverside\/\">UC Riverside<\/a> shows a promising new way to store and transmit information using disordered superconducting loops.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research, which appears in the <em><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/em>, offers the ability of superconducting loops to demonstrate associative memory, which, in humans, allows the brain to remember the relationship between two unrelated items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers work in digits \u2014 0s and 1s to be exact. Their calculations are digital; their processes are digital; even their memories are digital. All of which requires extraordinary power resources. As we look to the next evolution of computing and developing neuromorphic or \u201cbrain-like\u201d computing, those power requirements are unfeasible. To advance neuromorphic computing, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}